A Slippery Slope: How Climate Change is Reshaping the Arctic Landscape
Increasing ground temperatures in the Arctic are indicators of global climate change, but until recently, areas of cold permafrost…
Congressman Young, Senator Sullivan Applaud EPA Decision on Diesel Generators
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Don Young (R-AK) and Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) applauded Commissioner Andrew Wheeler’s announcement that…
Project to Study and Teach Alutiiq Beading Funded
With a $74,000 contract from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Alutiiq Museum and the Sun’aq Tribe of…
Senator Kawasaki Introduces Legislation To Incentivize Early Retirement for Public Employees
JUNEAU – Wednesday, Senator Scott Kawasaki (D-Fairbanks) introduced SB 102 to implement a temporary, voluntary retirement incentive program to…
Murkowski Questions FEMA Leadership on Earthquake Recovery Efforts
During a Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FEMA FY2020 budget request, Senator Lisa Murkowski questioned FEMA Administrator…
Brownsville CBP Officers Seize Narcotics Valued at More Than $272K in Two Seizures
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Brownsville Port of Entry intercepted methamphetamine and cocaine in…
ADF&G Announces 2019 SE Alaska Chinook Salmon All Gear Harvest Limit
(Juneau) — Under provisions of the Pacific Salmon Treaty, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced on…
Alaska NOAA Team Examines Dead Endangered Sperm Whale
It was a rare find: a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach in Alaska’s famed Inside Passage in Southeast Alaska.…
Anchorage Bookkeeper Sentenced to Four Years for Defrauding Anchorage Physician
On Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M Burgess sentenced the Anchorage accounting business owner, Jill Diane Applebury, aka: “Jill…
Alaska Air National Guardsmen Show Readiness to Deploy Worldwide
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The 176th Wing, one of the nation’s largest and busiest Air National Guard wings, today…